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Post by Bonobo on Jan 5, 2016 22:52:20 GMT 1
A worker of a PR agency designed a Facebook advertisement for Polish vodka which caused a huge scandal. The photo shows men carrying a fatally wounded mate. He was one of 3 victims of the communist police which opened fire at anti-regime demonstrators in Lubin in 1982. See my post about the events polandsite.proboards.com/post/10317The ad:  The worker is 28 and finished history at uni(!). She stated that the agency had told its workers to find a photo from communist times and use it in advertising campaign. Now she is going to face charges for slandering people in the photo. Nothing and nobody is respected in this world today. |
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Post by jeanne on Jan 6, 2016 0:44:05 GMT 1
The ad: The worker is 28 and finished history at uni(!). She stated that the agency had told its workers to find a photo from communist times and use it in advertising campaign. Now she is going to face charges for slandering people in the photo. Nothing and nobody is respected in this world today. What is written under the photo in the ad? |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 6, 2016 1:15:35 GMT 1
What is written under the photo in the ad? Vegas hangover? Scenario written by Rye Vodka. |
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Post by jeanne on Jan 6, 2016 1:27:16 GMT 1
What is written under the photo in the ad? Vegas hangover? Scenario written by Rye Vodka. That is really bad...how awful! |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 6, 2016 1:36:52 GMT 1
Vegas hangover? Scenario written by Rye Vodka. That is really bad...how awful! Yes. However..... on the second thoughts...... I suspect it isn`t the matter of worker`s ignorance. She must have perfectly realised the context of the photo, such cult pics found on the Net are never anonymous. I suppose that what she counted on was her young(?) readers` ignorance. This time the culprit won`t get away with it. In 20-30 years` time it will be a common practice to exploit such pics for other purposes than historical enlightment. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 6, 2016 1:50:32 GMT 1
More on the anti-communist demonstrations of 1982. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_demonstrations_in_PolandAt 4 pm, a platoon of riot police (ZOMO) from Legnica appeared on Lubin streets and immediately attacked the protesters. The officers were armed with AK-47 assault rifles, which they pointed towards the demonstrators.[1] When the line of policemen reached the intersection of Kopernika and Odrodzenia streets, some of them opened fire. A few minutes later, two men, 26-year-old Mieczyslaw Pozniak and 32-year-old Andrzej Trajkowski, were mortally wounded.
The events of the late afternoon and evening hours are difficult to recount. It has been established that the police opened fire several times more, thus hitting 28-year-old Michal Adamowicz in the back of his head. He died on September 5. Before 5 pm, another ZOMO platoon came to Lubin (its members were armed with semi-automatic pistols P-83 Wanads), and local police commandant asked offices in Leszno and Zielona Góra to send more reinforcements. At about 5:30, the police changed their tactics. Instead of attacking large groups of demonstrators, the officers created the so-called raid groups, consisting of 6–7 officers, riding in Nysa vans. They roamed the town, brutally attacking even single persons.[1]
Meanwhile the demonstrators, upon finding out about deaths of their two colleagues, became more determined. More people joined the fighting, and riots lasted until 10:30 pm, when another ZOMO company from Zielona Góra, a platoon of soldiers from Krosno Odrzanskie, and three water cannons were brought to Lubin. Altogether, 1323 officers pacified the demonstration, and new street fights erupted in the town both on September 2 and 3. Altogether, on August 31 in Lubin, three demonstrators were killed, unknown number wounded (six of them were hit by bullets). Around 300 people were arrested.
Immediately after pacification of the town, security forces began destruction of evidence. In the night of August 31 – September 1, the streets were carefully cleaned, with all shells and bullets taken for analysis. On September 2, police authorities ordered repairs of damaged buildings – broken windows were replaced, and traces of bullets on the walls were covered with plaster. The investigation, despite consistent statements of witnesses of the massacre, was closed.[1] In July 2007, commandant of Lubin police, Jan M., who pacified the demonstration, was sentenced to seven years.[10]The monument to the fatally wounded man who was carried by his mates away from gun fire.  |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 29, 2017 20:41:48 GMT 1
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